Folder name comparison utility

notsamot57 · 02-04-2010, 02:38 PM

Does anyone know a good program to use for comparing folder names from 2 different directories?

The reason being that at work we have a shared area with 2 folders one named REC (records) the other named WIP (work in progress) within these 2 folders there are 100s of subfolders. The folder names in wip and rec both need to mirror each other but the files are different within the folders. The problem we're having at the moment is people are creating new folders with out letting me know which means the folder names are no longer mirroring each other.

I need to know if there is a utilty available to compare just folder names so that we can get a list of folders which have been created without our knowledge and we can ask the originators to remove them.

any help would be most appreciated

AlucardZero · 02-04-2010, 03:10 PM

diff?

ls /REC > txt1
ls /WIP > txt2

diff txt1 txt2

slacker_et · 02-04-2010, 03:10 PM

I'd investigate writing a script using the find command and it's '-type d' argument.

Example:

Code:

find /some_directory -type d -print

--ET

catkin · 02-04-2010, 03:31 PM

Combining the techniques in the previous two posts

Code:

cd <REC and WIP parent directory>
find REC -type d > REC.dirlist
find WIP -type d > WIP.dirlist
diff REC.dirlist WIP.dirlist

notsamot57 · 02-04-2010, 03:46 PM

Thanks for the relies this going to be really useful